Mario Vrbancic

Mario Vrbancic is an independent filmmaker from Croatia. He works as a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Zadar where he teaches subjects on popular culture and cinema. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative literature from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has written two books and a number of academic articles and essays on postmodern literature, performance and cinema. He has worked in Croatia, New Zealand, Ukraine and Australia. As an artist he has written several radio and theatrical plays and since 2010 he has been involved as director and writer in many independent film projects: feature documentary: Kupica (2010), short fiction: The Referee's Dream (2011), short fiction: My Little Time Machine (2011); short fiction: The man and the smile (2012); feature fiction: Tail job (2015), feature fiction: Manhattan Odyssey (2020)